Get the latest tech news
Are Tech-Driven 'Career Meltdowns' Hitting Generation X?
"I am having conversations every day with people whose careers are sort of over," a 53-year-old film and TV director told the New York Times: If you entered media or image-making in the '90s — magazine publishing, newspaper journalism, photography, graphic design, advertising, music, film, TV...
The usual rate for freelance journalists is 50 cents to $1 per word — the same as it was 25 years ago... As opportunities and incomes dwindle, Gen X-ers in creative fields are weighing their options. (And "In advertising, brands ditched print and TV campaigns that required large crews for marketing plans that relied on social media posts."") By 2030, ad agencies in the United States will lose 32,000 jobs, or 7.5 percent of the industry's work force, to the technology, according to the research firm Forrester."
Or read this on Slashdot
